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Join the Board of the Coalition for Community Energy and make a difference in creating a renewable future. C4CE plays a very important role in growing and strengthening the community energy sector in Australia and the Board is essential to this task. We are looking for people with passion to provide leadership and governance oversight to drive the community energy sector in an exciting time of change.

Fill in the online form or below (Deadline 13th Jan) to nominate for the C4CE Board and you are encouraged to nominate for committees as well or instead

Please read the full PDF (or word) describing us and the role. You can fill in the online form, the form below or the Word version and submit by 13th January 2019  (email to secretariat@c4ce.net.au)

Gavin Ashley – 0405 324 167 or Vikki McLeod – 0427 845 622 would love to chat to you about joining and what’s involved.

You can nominate for any of the following:

• Board
• Governance Committee
• Membership and Communications Committee
• Research Committee
• Congress Committee
• Other volunteering





Over the past three years the Coalition for Community Energy has been hosted by the Alternative Technology Association.  C4CE has grown to now more than 90 member organisations and has held two extremely successful Community Energy Congresses. Read more →

Australia’s flagship community energy project is 5 years old and they continue to innovate (and to pump out clean energy from wind).  “Community Green” is Hepburn Wind’s carbon offset program based on businesses, organisations and individuals purchasing Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) generated by the two wind turbines.  The best bit? – they extinguish the certificates, creating more demand for renewable energy in the energy market.

Find out more https://www.hepburnwind.com.au/community-green-offset/

As mentioned, Hepburn is 5 years old and they tell us they’ve created 50,000,000kWh of clean energy, harvested from the wind just outside Daylesford in Victoria.

Tyalgum is situated in far northern New South Wales and the Tyalgum Energy Project has ambitious plans for powering their town with renewable energy.  The clever people behind the project have a strong desire to bring the whole town on the journey with them and they plan to create universal support among the town’s 120 households.  To achieve this the group plans to have small but meaningful developments along the path to their ultimate goal.

This weekend, Tyalgum Energy Project will be launching their electric bike facility. After a sponsorship from Dyson Bikes, the project was able to purchase 5 electric bikes and has established a stand-alone charging station using solar and batteries.

The electric bike station will be located next to the heritage listed General Store, with the launch taking place between 11am and 2pm  and will be run alongside the monthly Tyalgum Village Markets. It will be a great opportunity to check out the village, the project and take a little ‘spin’ on the newest bikes on the block.

Andrew Price, Kacey Clifford, along with Patrick Bergeron and a select group of community members have been having regular monthly meetings and working together to research solutions for the community. The project now has Patrick as a full time engineer and has been positively progressing with solar systems about to be installed on roofs in the next couple of months.